Falconry coming to Woodward

[goldflinger]

Wow, what a great thread! I am intrigued. If me and my 2 kids were to check this out, what can be expected? Lots of walking? Do you all wear hunter orange since you will be out in the middle of Rifle Season? This is making me want to take a day off from Deer Hunting to check this out. I am from Oklahoma City, and it is about a 2 1/2 hour drive. We were up in that area this summer checking out the Selmon bat watch. Another event I would highly reccomend. Could my 10 year old daughter keep up with this action? Are the observers used as flushers?

 

[Michael Beran]

Could my 10 year old daughter keep up with this action? Are the observers used as flushers?

We do different types of hunts, we will be looking for tractor/equipment storage areas to hunt bunnies. There is a lot less walking and more flushing, less catching but more flying, equipment areas are very fun to watch.

If we hunt drainage ditches there is a lot of walking because the bunnies flush both ways and we walk them in and walk them out.

When we are hunting the Harris Hawks it is very, very fun because these birds hunt like a pack of beagle dogs so all you have to do is watch, we dig them out of hiding but that's about it!

 

[shootermcgavin]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha
I really dislike cats, at least the domestic type, especially the domestic feral cat!

Yeah same for me. My apartment complex had a lot of feral, and my neighbor always fed them so they would hang on his porch area and poop on mine. Until my pellet gun started scaring them away.... They hated me almost as much as I hated them by the end of it, but they wouldn't poop on my porch anymore.

 

[Michael Beran]

I got my first blast of cool air today, that smell was in the air, the cool, low humidity smell of hunting season, got me excited to be going to Oklahoma this year! I can't wait!

 

[Michael Beran]

The PIC below is what
a battle worn Harris Hawk
looks like at the end of a great
hunting season!
She looks forlorn because we caught over 300
head of squirrels, squirrels fight back harder
than anything else we hunt!

 

[Michael Beran]

I took Padme' up
from the molt tonight,
she is acting like a
typical wild caught bird.
Amazing that in less than 30 days she will be
hunting with me like if
she was born to.

 

[Justin]

More!

 

[shootermcgavin]

I took Padme' up
from the molt tonight,
she is acting like a
typical wild caught bird.
Amazing that in less than 30 days she will be
hunting with me like if
she was born to.

So that is your brand new bird that you just caught?

 

[Michael Beran]

So that is your brand new bird that you just caught?

No, she is the bird I caught in 2006, she brand new out of the molt and wild as a goose because she has been unmanned all summer.

 

[Michael Beran]

Full body shot of Padme'